Background Out of pocket payments are the predominant method of financing healthcare in
many developing countries, which can result in impoverishment and financial catastrophe …

Abstract Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) is an emerging concept for providing
financial protection against the cost of illness and improving access to quality health …

Background There has been an increasing availability and accessibility of modern health
services in rural Bangladesh over the past decades. However, previous studies on the …

Introduction Reliance on out-of-pocket payment for healthcare may lead poor households to
undertake catastrophic health expenditure, and risk-pooling mechanisms have been …

Millions of pounds of international development funds are invested annually in social
protection programmes to tackle poverty. Poverty is perpetuated by risk and vulnerability …

Multinational companies (MNCs) can play an important role in poverty alleviation. The
international business literature, however, lacks theoretical insight and systematic empirical …

This article investigates households' decisions to take up micro life insurance and to use
other financial services. It estimates a multivariate probit model based on Ghanaian …

In many developing countries, commercial insurers are beginning to become interested in
serving the low-income market by providing microinsurance. To do so, they have to …

Calculating Catastrophe has been written to explain, to a general readership, the underlying
philosophical ideas and scientific principles that govern catastrophic events, both natural …

In rural Cameroon, many people have no access to quality healthcare services. This is
largely attributed to lack of private out-of-pocket payment to finance healthcare services. A …